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語源

Borrowed from Middle French taille (“cut”, noun). Doublet of tally.

発音

• IPA: /taɪ/
• 韻: -aɪ
• 異形同音異義語: tie, Ty, Thai

名詞

taille (countable and uncountable, plural tailles)

1. (historical) A form of taxation levied on the land of peasants in pre-Revolutionary France.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 143:

     The main royal tax was the taille, a tax on landed wealth, distributed among the généralités and assessed and levied in a variety of ways, and it was supplemented by a range of other direct taxes [...].

2. (baroque music jargon) The tenor voice or part, especially the part for the tenor viol or viola

関連する語

• tallage (“a tax”)

参照

• “taille”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• tallie